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Lake_GlobalGovernance.pptxRightful rules: authority, order, and the foundations of global governance
David a. lake
What is Global governance?
Global Governance:
The exercise of authority by an actor over some limited community.
Wielded by governments…but also families, clans, religious orders, professional associations, etc. Thus, subsumes sets of actors that wield authority across national borders.
States that exercise authority over other states (hierarchy)
International organizations that posses authority over their member states (supranationalism)
NGOs and corporations that exert authority over communities located in 2 or more states.
What are the issues? What is the solution?
Issue:
IR too focused on states
Limit non-state forms of governance to existing only as a by-product of state authority – delegated authority
Formal-Legal Conception
Limit enforcement to violence/coercion (fear)
Authority Static
Solution:
Social contract theory
The central role of authority in political life
Relational authority
Authority is a social contract where governor provides a political order of value to a community in exchange for compliance with the rules necessary to produce that order
Authority Dynamic
What has been the problem? Visualizing an alternative possibility
Hierarchy & Global Governance
Anarchy & State of Nature
Compliance with rightful rules in response to duty or obligation
Compliance as a result of threats from powerful states; all other authority is delegated from the state
Authority and ir
Political Authority defined:
Rightful or legitimate rule accepted by governed
Different from coercion
Institutionalized as social interests the governed invest in assets specific to that authority and the rules it produces.
Must benefit—on average—members of relevant community
More alternatives than just the “state of nature”
Not contingent on a formal-legal structure premised on coercive capacity, i.e. violence.
Premised on a social contract that exchanges order for compliance.
Contingent on actions of both the governor and governed generating an equilibrium that is produced and re-produced through on-going interactions.
Various forms of enforcement, to include exclusion.
global governance indicators
4 “irregular” behaviors that are consistent with the central role of anarchy in IR:
Zones of peace and commerce among states subject to a common authority
Binding rules and compliance from duty or obligation
Coercion used legitimately to create order and discipline wayward states
Authorities, including states, limiting their power to preserve their legitimacy
